The “Planetary Systems” team at IA focuses its activities around two major branches: Exoplanet research and Solar System atmospheres.
All this research is supported by our strong leading participation in a number of international projects and collaborations, including ESO and ESA projects and missions.

Published 18 January, 2022 in Outreach

With data from NASA's Kepler space mission and ESO's HARPS and CORALIE spectrographs, a team lead by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, was able to discover... read more ❯

CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet

Published 11 January, 2022 in Outreach

This research, lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher Susana Barros, is the first time that the deformation of an exoplanet has been detected. Learn more: ESA News read more ❯

Activities

Upcoming activities

There are no new activities planned yet.

Past activities

3 December, 2021

2nd Planetary Systems day @ IA

IA planetary systems group is organizing the 2nd of the bi-yearly Planetary Systems Day. The day will feature presentations of planetary research works being done by the team and external collaborators.

7 - 10 September, 2021

EANA 2021 – Virtual Conference

The European Astrobiology Network association (EANA) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a virtual EANA 2021 meeting.

2 February, 2021

1st Planetary Systems day @ IA

IA planetary systems group organizes the 1st of the bi-yearly Planetary Systems Day. The day features presentations of planetary research works being done by the team and external collaborators.

Projects

April 2022 —April 2027

NIRPS

NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is a new high resolution spectrograph for the ESO-3.6m telescope in La Silla Observatory (Chile). It covers the Read more

July 2019 —December 2033

ARIEL

ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, is a space mission that will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and Read more